Friday, November 30, 2012

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Founder and president of Americans for
Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, dismissed discussion of GOP defections from his “no
new taxes” pledge, and President Obama’s tax theories, as pure fantasy.In a Tuesday interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition,” the conservative activist reinforced
that support for his “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” — which was signed by 95
percent of Republican congressmen earlier this month – is not waning. Norquist
stated that Democrats’ openness to substantial spending cuts is like imagining a
“pink unicorn.”Norquist went on the defensive over the past few weeks after a few
Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, appeared to be
backtracking on their pledge to oppose any new taxes. He believes that the media
stories about some Republicans possibly breaking their no-tax pledge are repeats
of what was being reported two years ago.“People are turning in the [same] homework for the second time,” he told NPR
of the news media. But two years ago, Republicans concluded that President Obama
and his fellow Democrats had not offered significant spending cuts. Norquist
predicts the same will happen during negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal
cliff.

Norquist went on to condemn Obama’s economic and tax theories as “ridiculous
left-wing fantasy.”“If we’d had a Reagan-sized recovery
instead of an Obama-sized recovery over the last 3 1/2 years there would be
11-plus [more] million Americans at work,” said Norquist. “Obama has put his
ridiculous left-wing fantasy theories of Keynesianism above the lives of 11
million families in this country.”President Obama’s tax theories, Norquist stated, have been an “extremely bad
thing,” and that taxation as a whole is having a fundamentally negative impact
on Americans.“There’s no reason to raise taxes, taxes should be lower,” Norquist told host
Steve Inskeep. “The problem we have is that government spends too much — not
that taxes are too low.”“Obama has a theory and his theory is wrong – that if government takes
people’s money and spends it you magically have twice as much money.”MEET GROVER NORQUIST NEXT THURSDAY @ POLITICS ON THE
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